Extract from Welsh Parliament debate on HS2 consequential funding - Oct 11

Delyth Jewell MS:...In 2020-21, only 3.7 per cent of Wales's rail tracks were electrified, compared with over 43 per cent in England and 32 per cent in Scotland. The billions we're already owed from the London-Birmingham leg could be used to electrify our entire rail network. Mr Sunak did attempt in his speech to claim that the north Wales main line would be electrified, but that promise too has been exposed as a distortion, a sham. We cannot trust a single word that the Tories say to us on railways. Just look at what happened with the Great Western main line and look again at what's happening today. We're all right for a headline, but when it comes to the cash or the planning, they make tracks—well, at least someone does...

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